Mexico

2011

New York, June 20,
2011--A prominent Mexican newspaper columnist, his wife, and a son were
shot to death in their home in Veracruz, according to state investigators, a
shocking assault that underscores the country's ongoing crisis. The administration
of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa must take decisive action to end to the cycle of
violence undermining Mexico's democracy, the Committee to Protect Journalists
said today.

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New York, June 10,
2011--The Committee
to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to conduct a thorough investigation
into the abduction of news editor Marco Antonio López Ortiz, who appears to
have been kidnapped on Tuesday in Acapulco, Guerrero state.

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New
York, June 2, 2011--With
the news that the body of Noel López Olguín, a Mexican reporter who went missing in March, was found on Tuesday, the Committee to Protect
Journalists called on Mexican authorities to thoroughly investigate his murder.
López was found Tuesday buried in a clandestine grave in the city of Chinameca,
in the state of Veracruz, according to local news reports.

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New York, June 1,
2011--A drug gang leader confessed on Sunday to
killing Mexican reporter Noel López Olguín, a columnist for a small newspaper
in the state of Veracruz who went missing in March, according to local press
reports. Gustavo Salas, the Mexican federal attorney general's special
prosecutor for crimes against freedom of expression, told CPJ on Tuesday that his
office is taking up the case.

New York, May 31,
2011--Vanguardia, the oldest and
largest newspaper in the city Saltillo, in the northern Mexican state of
Coahuila, was the target of a hand grenade attack on Sunday, according to local
press reports. No injuries were reported.

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Lately, we have come to expect violence against
journalists in certain regions, such as the Middle East. But here at CPJ, 2011
has also been troubling for the number of journalists killed in an entirely
different part of the world, the Americas.

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"We have a big story coming out tomorrow," Adela Navarro
Bello, the co-editor of the muckraking Tijuana
weekly Zeta, said when I visited the
newspaper last Thursday. "There's a breakthrough in the investigation into the
murder of Ortiz Franco."

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New York, March 29, 2011--The Committee to Protect
Journalists deplores the shooting death of Mexican photographer Luis Emanuel
Ruiz Carrillo on Friday and calls on Mexican authorities to launch a thorough
investigation into his killing.

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Major
Mexican press organizations agreed today on a code for coverage of organized
crime, a step seen as a national breakthrough that could set professional standards
well into the future. Though organized crime has been the major story in Mexico
for several years, coverage has been haphazard based on time, place, and news
organization. The problem with today's agreement is that organized crime
cartels are so powerful in many parts of the country that they will likely be
able to block some of the most important elements of the accord with the same
intimidation they use to control much of the press already.